Isaac Weiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 341541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isaac Weiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isaac |
| FAMILY NAME | Weiner |
| SIGNATURE | WEINER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Guardian of the Wall: Leo Pfeffer and the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment By J. David Holcomb. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. viii + 246. $111.00 cloth
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The Sabbath Observer, the Idiosyncratist, and the Religious Organization: How the EEOC Imagines Religion at Work
Charged with enforcing Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission plays an overlooked but profoundly important role in shaping American religious life. While scholars of religion, law, and American culture have devoted a great deal of energy to analyzing the ways that federal courts define religion for the purposes of protecting it, they have paid less attention to the role of administrative agencies,…
The American Religious Sounds Project (religioussounds.osu.edu)
What does religion sound like? This question animates the American Religious Sounds Project (ARSP), a collaborative research initiative co-directed by Amy DeRogatis (Michigan State University) and
Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age, by Nelson Tebbe
In June 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would hear an appeal from a Colorado baker who was sanctioned for violating anti-discrimination laws after refusing to create a wedding cake for a gay couple. Citing his religious objections to the union, Phillips argued that he should not be forced to promote a message at odds with his convictions. The case illustrates one form of conflict between religious freedom and equality law. Should b…
Turning students into scholars: Using Digital Methods to Teach the Critical Study of Religion
Incorporating digital tools into Religious Studies courses provides experiences and conditions that transform students into scholars. In this essay we discuss two courses we taught in conjunction with the Religious Soundmap Project of the Global Midwest, a collaborative digital humanities project that we co-directed from 2014 to 2016. Engaging students as contributors to a collaborative digital research project helped them to appreciate some of t…
Hittin' The Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South
"Hittin’ The Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South." Material Religion, 13(1), pp. 115–116
The Corporately Produced Conscience: Emergency Contraception and the Politics of Workplace Accommodations
This article uses a chance encounter with a supermarket checkout clerk as an occasion for reframing contemporary debates about workplace accommodations and the religious politics of contraception. Scholarship on workplace religion has tended to assume a rigid distinction between the religious spaces in which conscience is formed and the secular spaces to which claims of conscience are brought. In contrast, I argue that we might productively redes…
Calling Everyone to Pray: Pluralism, Secularism, and the Adhān in Hamtramck, Michigan
This article critically interrogates the discourses of secularism and pluralism by analyzing their surprising effects in a 2003 dispute about the adhān (Islamic call to prayer) in Hamtramck, Michigan. Hamtramck residents advanced different understandings of how secular governance should manage religious differences, but their arguments had unintended consequences that ran counter to their stated intents. In the end, I argue, Muslims were able to …
Sound
Displacement and re-placement: The International Friendship Bell as a Translocative Technology of Memory
The International Friendship Bell is a traditional Japanese bonshō bell that was installed in Oak Ridge, TN, in 1996 to mark the city's fiftieth anniversary. I interpret the bell as a highly ambivalent site of cultural memory, drawing on memory studies theory to analyze its multiple meanings. Its backers represented the bell as an elegant tribute to Oak Ridge's post-World War II scientific legacy, while its detractors interpreted it as offering a…
Sound and American Religions
Americans of diverse religious backgrounds have striven to hear God's voice or to respond to the call of other suprahuman forces. Yet despite increased attention to visual and material culture, religious studies research mostly has been deaf to the sounds of American religious life and to the significance of hearing as a spiritual practice. This essay explores the theoretical and methodological roots of this disciplinary deafness and offers theor…
Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives – Edited by Nancy T. Ammerman
The Sage of Tawawa: Reverdy Cassius Ransom, 1861‐1959 – Annetta L. Gomez‐Jefferson
Animal Sacrifice & Religious Freedom: Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye V. City of Hialeah – By David M. O’Brien
Sound and American Religions
Americans of diverse religious backgrounds have striven to hear God's voice or to respond to the call of other suprahuman forces. Yet despite increased attention to visual and material culture, religious studies research mostly has been deaf to the sounds of American religious life and to the significance of hearing as a spiritual practice. This essay explores the theoretical and methodological roots of this disciplinary deafness and offers theor…
Calling Everyone to Pray: Pluralism, Secularism, and the Adhān in Hamtramck, Michigan
This article critically interrogates the discourses of secularism and pluralism by analyzing their surprising effects in a 2003 dispute about the adhān (Islamic call to prayer) in Hamtramck, Michigan. Hamtramck residents advanced different understandings of how secular governance should manage religious differences, but their arguments had unintended consequences that ran counter to their stated intents. In the end, I argue, Muslims were able to …
Sound
Turning students into scholars: Using Digital Methods to Teach the Critical Study of Religion
Incorporating digital tools into Religious Studies courses provides experiences and conditions that transform students into scholars. In this essay we discuss two courses we taught in conjunction with the Religious Soundmap Project of the Global Midwest, a collaborative digital humanities project that we co-directed from 2014 to 2016. Engaging students as contributors to a collaborative digital research project helped them to appreciate some of t…
The Sage of Tawawa: Reverdy Cassius Ransom, 1861‐1959 – Annetta L. Gomez‐Jefferson
Animal Sacrifice & Religious Freedom: Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye V. City of Hialeah – By David M. O’Brien
Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives – Edited by Nancy T. Ammerman
Displacement and re-placement: The International Friendship Bell as a Translocative Technology of Memory
The International Friendship Bell is a traditional Japanese bonshō bell that was installed in Oak Ridge, TN, in 1996 to mark the city's fiftieth anniversary. I interpret the bell as a highly ambivalent site of cultural memory, drawing on memory studies theory to analyze its multiple meanings. Its backers represented the bell as an elegant tribute to Oak Ridge's post-World War II scientific legacy, while its detractors interpreted it as offering a…
Sound and American Religions
Americans of diverse religious backgrounds have striven to hear God's voice or to respond to the call of other suprahuman forces. Yet despite increased attention to visual and material culture, religious studies research mostly has been deaf to the sounds of American religious life and to the significance of hearing as a spiritual practice. This essay explores the theoretical and methodological roots of this disciplinary deafness and offers theor…
Sound
Calling Everyone to Pray: Pluralism, Secularism, and the Adhān in Hamtramck, Michigan
This article critically interrogates the discourses of secularism and pluralism by analyzing their surprising effects in a 2003 dispute about the adhān (Islamic call to prayer) in Hamtramck, Michigan. Hamtramck residents advanced different understandings of how secular governance should manage religious differences, but their arguments had unintended consequences that ran counter to their stated intents. In the end, I argue, Muslims were able to …
The Corporately Produced Conscience: Emergency Contraception and the Politics of Workplace Accommodations
This article uses a chance encounter with a supermarket checkout clerk as an occasion for reframing contemporary debates about workplace accommodations and the religious politics of contraception. Scholarship on workplace religion has tended to assume a rigid distinction between the religious spaces in which conscience is formed and the secular spaces to which claims of conscience are brought. In contrast, I argue that we might productively redes…
Hittin' The Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South
"Hittin’ The Prayer Bones: Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South." Material Religion, 13(1), pp. 115–116
Religious Freedom in an Egalitarian Age, by Nelson Tebbe
In June 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would hear an appeal from a Colorado baker who was sanctioned for violating anti-discrimination laws after refusing to create a wedding cake for a gay couple. Citing his religious objections to the union, Phillips argued that he should not be forced to promote a message at odds with his convictions. The case illustrates one form of conflict between religious freedom and equality law. Should b…
Turning students into scholars: Using Digital Methods to Teach the Critical Study of Religion
Incorporating digital tools into Religious Studies courses provides experiences and conditions that transform students into scholars. In this essay we discuss two courses we taught in conjunction with the Religious Soundmap Project of the Global Midwest, a collaborative digital humanities project that we co-directed from 2014 to 2016. Engaging students as contributors to a collaborative digital research project helped them to appreciate some of t…
The American Religious Sounds Project (religioussounds.osu.edu)
What does religion sound like? This question animates the American Religious Sounds Project (ARSP), a collaborative research initiative co-directed by Amy DeRogatis (Michigan State University) and
Guardian of the Wall: Leo Pfeffer and the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment By J. David Holcomb. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. viii + 246. $111.00 cloth
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Sabbath Observer, the Idiosyncratist, and the Religious Organization: How the EEOC Imagines Religion at Work
Charged with enforcing Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission plays an overlooked but profoundly important role in shaping American religious life. While scholars of religion, law, and American culture have devoted a great deal of energy to analyzing the ways that federal courts define religion for the purposes of protecting it, they have paid less attention to the role of administrative agencies,…
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